Animal Farm - Quotes

Question 1

Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed

Answer 1

Benjamin

Question 2

“Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilizes it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin”

Answer 2

Old Major

Question 3

A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance

Answer 3

Boxer

Question 4

He was still a majestic looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance

Answer 4

Old Major

Question 5

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”

Answer 5

Snowball

Question 6

He was a spy and a tale bearer, but he was also a clever talker

Answer 6

Moses

Question 7

He could turn black into white

Answer 7

Squealer

Question 8

“Day and night we are watching over your welfare.”

Answer 8

Squealer

Question 9

He was the admiration of everybody

Answer 9

Boxer

Question 10

they did not work, but directed and supervised the others

Answer 10

the pigs

Question 11

they continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity simply took advantage of it

Answer 11

wild animals

Question 12

These two disliked each other so much that is was difficult for them to come to any agreement, even in defense of their own interests

Answer 12

Snowball and Napoleon

Question 13

Most of this time [he] had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon

Answer 13

Farmer Jones

Question 14

“Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?”

Answer 14

Napoleon

Question 15

Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but [he] would never listen to her

Answer 15

Boxer

Question 16

[He] ended his speech with his usual cry of “Long live Animal Farm!”

Answer 16

Napoleon

Question 17

[He] would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon

Answer 17

Boxer

Question 18

“I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm.”

Answer 18

Boxer

Question 19

He sprang forward with a cry of “Death to Humanity” and sunk his teeth into Jones’ leg

Answer 19

Napoleon

Question 20

He confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool

Answer 20

sheep

Question 21

[He] seemed to understand, but would say nothing

Answer 21

Benjamin

Question 22

He was walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him

Answer 22

Napoleon

Question 23

He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razor blade tied to their spurs

Answer 23

Frederick

Question 24

[He] would talk, with the tears rolling down his cheeks, of Napoleon’s wisdom the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms

Answer 24

Squealer

Question 25

“Fools! Fools! Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?”

Answer 25

Benjamin

Question 26

[He] had commanded the once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration

Answer 26

Napoleon

Question 27

It now appeared that [he] had not, as the animals previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the battle of the Cowshed by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones’ side

Answer 27

Snowball

Question 28

in the middle of the summer [he] suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years

Answer 28

Moses

Question 29

“Up there, comrades,” he would say solemnly; pointing to the sky with his large beak - “up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see - there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain.”

Answer 29

Moses

Question 30

“Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there.”

Answer 30

Clover

Question 31

“Four legs good! Two legs better!”

Answer 31

Sheep

Question 32

“Gentlemen, here is my toast: to the prosperity of the Manor Farm!”

Answer 32

Napoleon

Question 33

There were very many of them, and their appetites were always good

Answer 33

the pigs and dogs

Question 34

Majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side

Answer 34

Napoleon/ the pigs

Question 35

He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on the Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county

Answer 35

Pilkington